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The Role of Social Capital in Financial Development
Guiso, Luigi - 2010
capital and trust (Banfield (1958), Putnam (1993)) across different parts of Italy, using microeconomic data on households and …
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Do Women Pay More for Credit? Evidence from Italy
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2008
-employed individuals, we find robust evidence that women in Italy pay more for overdraft facilities than men. We could not find any …
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Social Capital as Good Culture
Guiso, Luigi; Zingales, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola - 2021
To explain the extremely long-term persistence (more than 500 years) of positive historical experiences of cooperation (Putnam 1993), we model the intergenerational transmission of priors about the trustworthiness of others. We show that this transmission tends to be biased toward excessively...
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Foreign Investment and Domestic Productivity : Identifying Knowledge Spillovers and Competition Effects
Fons-Rosen, Christian - 2017
We study the impact of FDI on the productivity of host-country firms. FDI has positive spillovers only when foreign and … domestic firms use similar technologies. Channeling FDI to sectors where firms share similar technology would significantly … increase productivity spillovers from FDI. We show that inventor mobility across sectors is a key channel of technology …
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Catching-Up to Foreign Technology? Evidence on the "Veblen-Gerschenkron" Effect of Foreign Investments
Urban, Dieter M.; Peri, Giovanni - 2022
The presence of foreign multinational enterprises may benefit local economies. In particular, highly productive foreign-owned firms may promote technological catch-up of local firms. Such channel of spillovers is defined as "Veblen-Geschenkron" effect of Foreign Direct Investments and is...
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Young, Restless and Creative : Openness to Disruption and Creative Innovations
Acemoglu, Daron - 2015
This paper argues that openness to new, unconventional and disruptive ideas has a first-order impact on creative innovations-innovations that break new ground in terms of knowledge creation. After presenting a motivating model focusing on the choice between incremental and radical innovation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013034169
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Building Social Capital Through Microfinance
Feigenberg, Benjamin - 2014
A number of development assistance programs promote community interaction as a means of building social capital. Yet, despite strong theoretical underpinnings, the role of repeat interactions in sustaining cooperation has proven difficult to identify empirically. We provide the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069841
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Family Ties and Political Participation
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2010
We establish an inverse relationship between family ties and political participation, such that the more individuals rely on the family as a provider of services, insurance, transfer of resources, the lower is one's civic engagment and political participation. We also show that strong family...
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Do Television and Radio Destroy Social Capital? Evidence from Indonesian Villages
Olken, Benjamin A. - 2007
In quot;Bowling Alone,quot; Putnam (1995) famously argued that the rise of television may be responsible for social capital's decline. I investigate this hypothesis in the context of Indonesian villages. To identify the impact of exposure to television (and radio), I exploit plausibly exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778287
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Well-Being, Social Capital and Public Policy : What's New?
Helliwell, John F. - 2006
This paper summarizes recent empirical research on the determinants of subjective well-being. Results from national and international samples suggest that measures of social capital, including especially the corollary measures of specific and general trust, have substantial effects on well-being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783345